Myanmar security forces fired rifle grenades at protesters in a town near Yangon on Friday, killing more than 80 people, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) monitoring group and a domestic news outlet said.

Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA) Director Syed Nurul Islam today urged the government to allow the factories in textiles, garments and accessories sectors to run strictly maintaining health guidelines during the lockdown.

Strict restrictions on public transport and movement did not stop the spread of coronavirus. The government is set to impose a total lockdown. How challenging is an all-encompassing lockdown? Can it be possible despite lack of coordination? Could our healthcare system collapse if Covid-19 cases continue to rise?

South Korea will provide emergency support of $1 million for humanitarian activities in response to the massive fire that broke out recently at Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar.

Bangladesh Garment Workers Solidarity today in a statement demanded to ensure hundred percent wages of readymade garment workers during the lockdown.

Police detained a local Awami League leader in connection with the recovery of a body of a local businessman at the former's residence in Gaibandha today.

Law Minister Anisul Huq today warned that the government will take stern action against those who will try to create anarchy, chaos and damage lives and properties of the people in the country.

Twenty rounds of bullets, which were snatched from a policeman during clashes between police and Hefajat-e-Islam activists in Brahmanbaria, have been recovered two weeks after the incident.

An alliance of ethnic armies in Myanmar that has opposed the junta’s crackdown on anti-coup protests attacked a police station in the east today and at least 10 policemen were killed, domestic media said.

India and China today held the 11th round of corps commander talks to iron out differences over the next phase of disengagement in Eastern Ladakh.

A day after a whale carcass washed ashore at Himchhari beach in Cox’s Bazar, another whale corpse was found at the beach.

India's most coronavirus-hit state Maharashtra goes into a weekend lockdown as the country battles exploding infection numbers and vaccine shortages.

AKM Rafique Ahmed, director general of the Directorate of Environment (DoE), died with Covid-19 while undergoing treatment at Central Police Hospital in Dhaka.

Chinese regulators have fined Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 18 billion yuan ($2.75 billion) for violating anti-monopoly rules and abusing its dominant market position, marking the highest ever antitrust fine to be imposed in the country.

The World Bank Group will have committed $2 billion in financing by the end of April for Covid-19 vaccines in some 40 developing countries, World Bank Managing Director of Operations Axel van Trotsenburg said.

La Soufriere volcano on the eastern Caribbean island of St Vincent erupted after decades of inactivity, sending dark plumes of ash and smoke billowing into the sky and forcing thousands from surrounding villages to evacuate.

US and Iranian officials clashed over what sanctions the United States should lift to resume compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal, with Washington predicting an impasse if Tehran sticks to a demand that all sanctions since 2017 be removed.

Three more cases have been filed over carrying out vandalism over the confinement of Hefajat-e Islam Joint Secretary General Mamunul Haque in a resort in Narayanganj's Sonargaon on April 3.

US President Joe Biden asked Congress to sharply increase spending to combat climate change and gun violence and to support education in a budget that marks a sharp departure from his predecessor, Donald Trump.

Nineteen people have been sentenced to death in Myanmar for killing an associate of an army captain in a district of Yangon, the military owned Myawaddy television station said on Friday. It said 17 of the people were sentenced in absentia.